Performance

SWEET TOOTH is a cross-disciplinary music theatre piece devised by vocal and movement artist Elaine Mitchener. It uses text, improvisation and movement to stage a dramatic engagement with the brutal realities of slavery, as revealed by historical records of the British sugar industry and to illuminate its contemporary echoes.

Bluecoat turns 300 this year, and throughout 2017 there have been a series of exhibitions and events to mark this major anniversary. Below, local musician and Bluecoat Engagement Assistant, Andrew Stride writes about his personal highlight of the year, Pierre Henry’s The Liverpool Mass at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

As part of DaDaFest International 2016, Joey Hateley (aka The Gender Joker) will showcase a challenging and darkly comic multi-media performance that rips apart sexuality and gender identity boxes, to open up discussion around mental health. Here, Joey gives us an insight into how this staging of diRTy is the culmination of several years of research and development and in many ways the end and the beginning of an exciting journey.